www.ntv.co.ke While the International Criminal Court ruling earlier this week had been anticipated for several months in advance, there was no advance warning for Robinson Njeru Githae that he would take up the mantle at the Finance ministry. The acting Finance minister takes over arguably the most challenging ministry to head this year, with pressure to execute the financial aspect of devolution as well as organizing finances for the historic elections expected to present key challenges. With parliament not playing ball with regard to passing the financial bill as former finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta had expected, Githae already finds his in-tray full even before settling at treasury.
www.presstv.com In this edition of the show Max interviews Gonzalo Lira from LiraSPG.com. He talks about his latest news features covering the US financial and economic collapse for Latin American television, including TeleSur and also stations in Mexico and Argentina. Gonzalo Lira is an American novelist, filmmaker and economic blogger. Starting in 2010, Lira began contributing economic analysis to Zero Hedge, Naked Capitalism, Seeking Alpha and Business Insider; in Zero Hedge, one of his posts was the second most read of 2010.
www.FT.com Higher wages and tight credit have led some manufacturers to leave southern China, but others are staying and moving up the value chain. The FT’s Josh Noble visits two Austrian-owned factories that have operated in Guangdong province for over 30 years. For more video content from the FT, visit the Financial Times video section at: www.ft.com
CEO of Foundation Financial Group, Mark W. Boyer, contributed to a roundtable discussion regarding the job outlook for 2012. He participated in the roundtable with Karen Mathis and Keith Fairchild. Mark says that we are achieving stability in the job market, which leads to consumer confidence. As consumer confidence builds the housing market will flourish. Many jobs that are currently available are technical jobs.
David Bach is the author of The Automatic Millionaire and one of our picks for Most Popular Financial Expert of 2011. He shares with you the number one biggest mistake that people when it comes to managing their money–and how you can avoid that mistake in under an hour, using only your home computer!
Should government pay off our debts? Economist Steve Keen says we are already in another Great Depression. He advocates bankrupting the banks, nationalising the financial system and paying off people’s debt Economist Steve Keen is one of the few economists to have predicted the global financial crisis and now he says we are already in a Great Depression. He says the way to escape it is to bankrupt the banks, nationalise the financial system and pay off people’s debt. He admits what he is advocating is radical but says it is time governments gave money to debtors to pay down debt instead of to creditors such as banks who have held onto it. BBC World, Hardtalk 2011-11-24, 0530 Find out who is coming up on the programme by following us on Twitter.
